June 18, 2013

June Creative Weekly - Hello, Polka Dots

We want to quickly reiterate that the due date for 'dotted' challenge submissions is Monday, July 8th with the announcement of the winner on Wednesday, July 10th. The prize pack is a sizable helping of Crate Paper happiness, a blend of Crate's Winter/Spring Line-Up. If you love AC's cardstock, we'll throw in some of that, too. Don't postpone any longer - designer dots totally, utterly wanted! Send them our way! {cpblog@cratepaper.com}

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Katie Ehmann

When I saw this month's Creative Weekly theme, I knew right away I wanted to use the ferris wheel chipboard from The Pier. I had just taken my girls to a local fair and knew that it would be the perfect accent to the colorful fair photos I'd captured. I decided to punch various circles, plain and scalloped, from a few different neutral patterned papers from The Pier and add my colorful photos and embellishments. Keeping with the polka-dot theme, I cut my photos into circles and framed them with a few of the "border" pieces from The Pier and Maggie Holmes collection chipboard frames to really make them pop! Finally, I created my title from the awesome transparent plastic letters.

Debra Duty

For our fun dot theme, I started with a background created from a circle template and two different shades of yellow watercolors. I then added layers and embellishments from The Pier, Maggie Holmes, DIY Shop and Party Day. The colors of these collections work nicely all together. I also carried out the dot theme with a strip of colorful dot washi from The Pier washi paper, along the top edge. The tile letters, also from The Pier, complemented the bright yellow watercolors perfectly to complete my layout!

Evelyn Pratiwi

Every month, I get terribly excited about Creative Weekly because of it's theme component. This month's theme, 'dots', offered the chance to work with a multitude of Crate Paper collections, old & new. I wanted to make a simple, light-hearted Summer layout, so I based it on a adventuresome trip with my lil' brothers to Lombang Beach, Madura, East Java - Indonesia. I always choose my color scheme according to the pictures on display. This time, it's blue and aqua devoted to dots and my lil' brothers. I started by spraying cool aqua acrylic mist onto white cardstock. I then used my circle punches to make two different sized dots from Little Boy Blue patterned paper. I adhered them randomly to the cardstock using a mix of pop-dots and wet adhesive. I cropped the pictures using a circle punch, and really like the look because it lends a nice break from the standard square photo shape. Finally, to make the layout absolutely perfect, I embellished it with dot stickers, blue ribbons, chipboard, tags and buttons. Happy Summer to all of you!

Sophie Crespy

I love the DOTS theme! Especially since I just bought a dotted dress for my girl. I punched circles from The Pier 6" x 6" patterned paper pad, and with an assortment of random circle stickers and buttons, I positioned them in the shape of a heart on white cardstock. For the pink confetti, I used the rubber end of a pencil and dipped it in pink ink. To create the gold confetti, I dipped the rubber in embossing ink and then poured gold powder on top. I let it dry and got fun golden dots! I also chose dotted embellishments and alpha stickers to fit the theme. The whole design is very girly! Hope you like it!